Dyeing apparatus.



No. 846,940. PATENTED MAR. 12,1190?. H, PATTYN. DYBING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 26,1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

DYEING APPARATUS.

No. 846,940. v

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 12, 1907.

Application filed April 26, 1906. Serial No. 313,779.

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Be it known that I, HENRI PATTYN, a citizen of the Republic of France,residing` in Paterson, county of Passaic, State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Dyeing Apparatus; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to machines for dyeing, washing, mercerizing, orotherwise similarly treating silk skeins and the like, and consists incertain improvements having for their objects to render the machine morepositive in action, to cause it to perform its work on the skeins withgreater uniformity, whereby the treatment of the skeins is regular, andto reduce the power necessary to operate the machine.

My invention will be found fully illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, wherein- I igure 1 is a front elevation of the improvedmachine, a part thereof being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a view infront elevation, somewhat enlarged, of the driving means. Fig. 3 is aview in side elevation of what is shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a verticalsectional view taken between two pairs of skein-holders or bobbins, andFigs. 5 and 6 are respectively a front and a side view of a modifiedform of drive mechanism.

In said drawings, a is a tank having a suitable discharge b. In thistank is arranged a pedestal c and two auxiliary edestals d, the pedestalc and each pedestal d) carrying a box e. Each box e is supplied with afluid for treating the skeins by a pipe f, having branches g leadinginto the boxes. The boxes are formed with perforations h on the sidesthereof, so that the liquid for treating the skeins is forced out of thesides of said boxes in small streams. On the top of each -box isarranged a series of brackets t, each forming bearings for a shaft j,carrying a sprocket-wheel 7c and two bobbins Z. The skeins m are hung onthese bobbins, and while the bobbins are rotating alternately in reversedirections, as hereinafter described, the skeins are soaked by the smallstreams issuing from the perforations h.

n is an endless chain which extends alternately over and under thesuccessive sprockets 7c in its lower stretch and in its upper stretchover an idler 0, carried by an extension p of one of the brackets fi. Atthe inner end of each row of brackets fi is a bracket g, in which isjournaled a shaft r, carrying two sprocketwheels s and t, the former ofwhich is splined on the shaft andthe latter fixed thereon. The innerends of the chains n extend each over a sprocket-wheel s. fu, and e arethe component parts of a clutch, respectively carried by thesprocket-wheels s and t. The shaft r being rotated, the correspondingchain n will be driven, according to whether or not the clutchmembers'are engaged or disengaged. The sprocket-wheel sis moved toeffect the engagement or disengagement of said clutch members by meansof a lever w, fulcrumed in the bracket g and having afork engaging inthe peripheral groove vy of the clutch member u.

e, 1, and 2 designate three brackets arranged in alinement with eachother, and in these brackets are journaled a drive-shaft 4 and acounter-shaft 5. The counter-shaftcarries a sprocket-wheel 6, over whichand the sprocket-wheel t, extends an endless chain 7. Power for drivingthe machine is taken in through a crank-pin 8 on a crank 9, secured onone end on the shaft 4, and on the other endof said shaft Vis a pinion10. This pinion meshes withV a pinion 11, fixed on a stubshaft 12,mounted in brackets z and 1 and having journaled on it a smaller pinion1.3, which meshes with a gear 14, carried by shaft 5. The pinion 10 alsomeshes with a pinion 15, in turn meshing with a pinion 16, fixed on ashaft 17, journaled in the bracket e and 1 and carrying, loosely mountedthereon, a pinion 18, meshing with the gear 14. Thus according as eitherthe pinion 13 or 18 is made to rotate with its shaft 12 or 17 so therotary movement imparted by shaft 4 to shaft 5 will be in either onedirection or the other.

In order to automatically reverse shaft 5, so as to intermittentlyrotate the spools in reverse directions, the followingmechanism isemployed. On shaft 12 (and 17) is splined a clutch 19, having aperipheral groove 20,

with which engages a fork 2l of a bellcrank lever 22. There are two ofthe levers 22, one for each clutch 19, and each is fulcrumed in the endof a cross-arm 23, carried by a stud 24 on the bracket z. Ihe bellcranklevers are connected by a lever 25,

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having its ends extending through holes 26 in the levers 22 andfulcrumed in its middle portion on the stud 24. Thus according as onelever 22 is rocked in one direction the other will rook in the otherdirection. 'lhe pinions 13 and 18 are each formed with a clutch 27,adapted to be engaged by the coi'- responding clutch 19. On a stud 28 isfulcrumed a weighted lever 29, carrying a crossarm 30, which extendsover the horizontal portions of the bell-crank levers 22. 3 0 is anotherlever having a pin 31 working 'in a slot 32 on the lever 29, the lever30 being fulcrumed on a stud 31. 32 is a pinion carrying a pin 33,adapted to engage the lever 30 to move the same on its fulcrum. -Thepinion 32 is journaled on the stud 31 and is operatively connected withshaft A5 by the pinions 34 and 35. rIhe operation of this reversingmechanism is substantially as follows: Shaft 4 being rotated and levers29 and 30 being in the positions shown, the clutch 19 corresponding topinion 13 is cooperating with the clutch 27 of said pinion to interlockthe latter with its shaft 12, so that the rotary motion of the shaft 4is transmitted to shaft 5 through pinion 10, pinion 11, shaft 12, clutchmembers 19 and 27, pinion 13, and gear 14. Shaft 5 continues rotating inthe direction which it has now assumed until the pin 33 brings upagainst lever 30,`whereupon said lever is shifted, and thus shifts lever29. Thereupon the cross-arm 30 operates to depress the righthandbell-crank lever 22, Fig. 2, and elevate the other, which causes theright-hand clutch members 19 and 20 to engage with each other and theleft-hand clutch members 19 and 2O to disengage, so that the power isnow transmitted to shaft 5 through pinions 10, 15, and 16, clutchmembers 19 and 27, .and pinion 13 and gear 14, the direction of rotationof the shaft being reversed.

In the modified form of the reversing mechanism shown in Figs. 5 and 6the driveshaft 4 carries a worm 36, in mesh with a worm-wheel 37,mounted on a shaft 38, which is journaled in a bracket 39, said shaftcarrying oppositely-extending cranks 40. On the shaft 5 is the pinion 6.42 designates racks engaged with the pinion 41 and connected with thecrank-pins 43 of the cranks by pitmen 44. Each rack has a strap 45arranged to be guided in a bracket 46 on the bracket a. In the operationof this reversing mechanism the rotary motion transmitted to the p shaft3S through the parts 36 and 37 will zause the racks to reciprocate,their move- :nent being in relatively reverse directions on account ofthe arrangement of the cranks. lhe effect will be to rotate shaft 5alternately in reverse directions.

having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new,.anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. rfhe combination of a tank, a hollow body arranged therein and havinglateral discharge-openings, means for supplying a treating liquid tosaid body, a series of brackets carried by said body, bobbin-carryingshafts journaled in said brackets and projecting beyond the sides ofsaid body, bobbins arranged on the projecting ends of said shafts, andmeans for rotating said shafts and the bobbins carried thereby,substantially* as described.

2. The combination of a tank, a hollow body arranged therein and havinglateral discharge-openings, means for supplying a treating liquid tosaid body, a series of brackets carried by said body, bobbin-carryingshafts journaled'in said brackets and jecting beyond the sides of saidbody, bobbins arranged on the projecting ends of said shafts, and meansfor rotating said shafts and the bobbins carried thereby, alternately inreversed directions, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a tank, a hollow body arranged therein and havinglateral discharge-openings, means for supplying a treating liquid tosaid body, rotary bobbincarrying shafts, means: for supporting saidshafts above said openings, bobbins arranged on said shafts andprojecting beyond the sides of said body, and means for rotating saidshafts and the bobbins carried thereby, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a tank, a hollow body arranged therein and havinglateral discharge-openings, means for supplying a treating liquid tosaid body, rotary bobbincarrying shafts, means for supporting saidshafts above said openings, bobbins arranged on said shafts andprojecting beyond the sides of said body, a flexible driving deviceextending alternately over and under said shafts, and, means for movingsaid driving device alternately in reverse directions, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this24th day of April, i906.

HENRI PATTYN.

W'itnesses 1 JOHN W. STEWARD, WM. D. BELL.

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